With the outbreak of Russian aggression against Ukraine in Crimea and Donbas since 2014, thousands of innocent people have been killed, wounded and displaced. War crimes committed by Russian proxy forces in the occupied territories of Ukraine have been an essential part of a discourse on national and international levels. Last week, Ukraine saw the adoption of long-awaited law necessary to investigate and prosecute war crimes.
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Yuliia Rudenko: Ukraine moves closer to restoring justice for victims of Russia’s war crimes
A painted door like a prison cell corridor is seen during the presentation of the art project "Underground Despair", dedicated to 98 Crimean residents who were arrested after the annexation of the peninsula by Russia by Georgian artist David Kukhalashvili in downtown Kyiv on Feb. 8, 2021.